OligoWiz 1.0 Server

This server performs intelligent design of oligonucleotides for DNA
microarrays.

OligoWiz is implemented as a client-server solution, which consist of an
easy to use Graphical User Interface (the client - written in Java) which
delegates the computationally intensive operations to a server (which by
default is hosted at CBS on a powerfull Multi-CPU SGI UNIX server).
All the user needs to do is to download and start
the GUI.

The client is written in Java 1.3.1 with portability in mind. It is tested
on MacOS X, Linux and Windows, but should work on any platform with Java
1.3.1 or better. The client communicates with server using the HTTP protocol.

DOWNLOAD

The most recent version of the OligoWiz client can be downloaded
here as a Java Archive (JAR).Note: for some browsers you may have to right click and choose
"Save Target As..."
Also, some browsers have been reported to rename the OligoWiz.jar file to *.zip.
If this happens the file must be re-rename to *.jar.

Running OligoWiz

If Java is allready installed, starting the OligoWiz client is as easy
as double-clicking the file (Windows and MacOS X), or typing
java -jar OligoWiz.jar at
the command prompt (Unix).

Out of Memory!
If you run large sets of sequences on OligoWiz you may experience memory problems.
In most cases this can be fixed by executing OligoWiz in the following way (in a prompt):
java -jar -Xmx300m OligoWiz.jar
Where "300m" is the maximum amount of memory allocated by OligoWiz.jar (300 megabytes)

HTTP proxy:
In order to set up OligoWiz to access our server through a proxy, the proxy parameters
need to be parsed to the JVM on the command prompt:
java -jar -Dhttp.proxyHost=proxyhost -Dhttp.proxyPort=portNumber
OligoWiz.jar (Put in you relevant proxyhost/port number).

Java:
A suitable version of Java (choose J2SE version 1.3.1 or newer) can be
downloaded here: